In Praise of Richard Murphy
Richard’s exposed the holes in the Government’s contemptible Emmental deal which lets British tax dodgers legally avoid their dues by squirrelling billions in Switzerland with a barrage of well argued pieces. And he still found time to take an financial chainsaw to the so called Taxpayers’ Alliance.
His latest post Let’s not get personal this is a matter of right or wrong was under an hour ago and is spot on. We’ve got to take sides on tax. Rich individuals, corporations, well funded special interest groups and much of Fleet Street is on one(the wrong) side and then there is Richard Murphy plus a few others, includling yours truly. But it is Murphy who is the heroic figure. Tireless and forensic, driven by an admirable moral fervour, I take my hat off to a campaigner with Duracell batteries. The hypocrite is you and Squealer Maguire who criticise anyone who does not conform to their agenda. Since you ask for it, I think Richard Murphy’s arguments are hypocritical [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] and simplistic in the extreme. He criticises the TPA who focusing on a lot of tax that will never be recovered and then just plucks statements from thin air and dismisses the complex tax code system. This whole things makes his arguments shallow and unconvincing.
Likewise, he slams George Osborne for not trying to get enough of the tax back. I would say that trying to be too harsh will result in a lot of rich people using expensive lawyers to see to it that their money is moved in its entireity and untaxed to another tax haven. Far better to extract what tax we should and [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] can reasonably extract then acting tough and delivering little.
But as for [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] my criticism, I was merely pointing out the typical hypocricy of Squealer Maguire who wouldn’t dare slam some of the biggest and most well funded special interest groups like the unions and the BBC.
No honest person can disagree with Richard Murphy’s objectives of getting tax evaders to pay up rather than hide their ill gotten gains in tax havens, but it should be pointed out that his blog and articles are generally viewed with bemusement by those in the accounting and tax profession (and we aren’t all part of some great conspiracy to help rich people evade taxes as Richard Murphy thinks).
This isn’t because people in the tax profession disagree with his aims, it is simply that his articles rarely have the factual accuracy that would stand up under professional scrutiny. This [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] isn’t helped by the fact his blog rarely accepts comments from anyone who points out his own contradictions, let alone disagrees with him (he states this policy on comments on his blog for all to see).
Unfortunately, all too many people read Richard Murphy’s rants and personal attacks (who is likely to feel sorry for Dave Hartnett, head of HMRC?) and take what they see as fact. When reading his blog, it is always worth remembering, that just as there are tax people [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] who are paid to help people evade tax, Richard Murphy has made a successful business out of attacking them in the media.
The Swiss UK deal is a big step in the right direction (who would have imagined this only a few years ago?) but there is still more to be done and much more will be done regardless of Richard Murphy’s blog. if you try and take too much money off them they’ll leave the country/hide even more etc, etc. Best be thankful for what we can get out of them without upsetting them too much.
Why is it that this liberal wishy washy thinking is only confined to the rich and their stash. Why don’t you apply the same principle of laissez faire to drug addicts, looters, benefit cheats. Weak on tax avoidance/evasion. Weak on the causes of tax avoidance/evasion.
It is estimated that up to 120billion is lost to the exchequer each year by these practices. Well done Richard Murphy.
His reports for, among others, the TUC and other special interest groups contain numerous factual howlers which he always refuses to correct or even acknowledge.
As someone else said it is his stated policy to block all comments that disagree with him. He comes across as an exceedingly unpleasant person: snide, personal, self righteous, pompous and arrogant.
He is also hypocritical: before he began churning out reports for the TUC he was a tax accountant who wrote many articles for the Guardian (of all [عزيزي الزائر يتوجب عليك التسجيل لمشاهدة الرابط للتسجيل اضغط هنا] places) advising readers how to avoid tax, for example in one article he suggested you employ your nanny through an intermediary to avoid NI. He was also on the Board of companies which had companies in the Bahamas or Caymans (I forget which). He also continues to avoid tax by using companies and taking his wife into partnership, again avoiding NI.
The man is a joke and a clown, and it is amazing he has got so many daft lemmings following him.
Sadly, Murphy is no tax expert, his research of tax law rudimentary as best and he is incapable of debate. He really is a bit of a laughing stock notice how the BBC has never had a proper tax expert together with Murphy to counteract his bullshit my guess is that this is done at Murhy’s request. As for the Swiss deal, he will have you believe that he has been working on a revised EU Tax Savings Directive and hence he has inside info on which way the Swiss were moving before thew UK supposedly ruinened the deal. A look at all the EU Tax Directive papers does not disclose Murphy as a contributer, so more bull from Murphy. As well as being banned by the home secretary from marching through Tower Hamlets due to the risk of public disorder by the thugs. The EDL are just the thicko section of the tory party. You do the dirty work that the tory chinless wimps won’t do.
Yes, there appears to be a well orchestrated attack on Richard Murphy by the tory trolls such as George Kaplan and his various psuedonyms. You have to ask yourself why these sycophants who normally rant and rave on here about wasting tax payers money and government efficiency always leap to the defence of the idle rich whenever anyone asks them to pay their full tax contribution.
They also wheel out the same old lame excuses don’t take too much off them or they’ll leave the country etc.
It is estimated that 120billion is lost to the Exchequer each year through various tax dodges. I bet you pay your full tax I know that I do. So why is it unreasonable to ask a few thousand rich people to pay their dues to society. Most of them have usually made their money off the backs of other people anyway.
I agree with Richard Murphy to ask them to only pay 19% to 34% in tax is scandalous. I pay 40% tax and don’t begrudge a penny. These people earn many times more than me but refuse to make the rightful contribution. Hence why they are justly called parasites. You middle income tories must be really stupid to continually defend those who pay less tax than yourself, but if a single mother happens to want some benefit you’re all up in arms calling them scroungers etc. Hypocrits.
"Someone who pays more in than they take out is not a parasite". But they don’t pay more in as they pay very little tax if any at all.
As an example, the unrepentant tax evader Philip Green, the head of the Arcadia group (topshop, topman, dorothy perkins, BHS, Miss Selfridge, Burton) was asked by the Tories to consult on welfare and public sector cuts. This is the man who runs a company ‘owned’ by his wife who lives in monaco (0% tax) whose multibillion pound company is registered to a small office in Jersey, so pays no UK tax, and who in 2024 paid a dividend to his wife of 1.2billion instead of himself and therefore saved over 250 million in UK tax. This is a man that the Tories think is a suitable person to decide whether WE should still get our benefits and public services. Why does it always have to turn into personal insults if people question Maguire or his sources. Maguire is one of the worst commentators for grabbing a bit of info and making it the main point. This blog if his is a classic he starts off with referencing Richard Murphy’s blog as being spot on And he is correct. The blog he references is spot on and I think you’ll find most tax paying members of the UK would agree with it. Then Maguire references Murphy’s exposure of the Swiss tax deal and this is totally misleading. Have either of you read the blog and then read the comments below. Where Murphy accepts that he has put in the wrong information but refuses to update his blog and then closes the comments section . I had never even heard of Richard Murphy before reading this blog but now that I have read a number of his posts I’m inclined to view him as Tax Lawyer states.
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